Oak Bend Medical Center

Oak Bend Medical Center is a small hospital-based facility in Richmond, Texas. Featuring an overall grade of A, this facility outpaced most of the nursing homes in Richmond by a significant margin. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is really as good as it gets. As you can see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. This nursing home performed much better in the final datapoint we considered in this area, which was the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Texas with 82.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a top-shelf long-term care score. Indeed, this is this facility's third strongest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our next category, this facility was given a high-end nursing rating. We awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, finishing off one of our finer report cards. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.